Lieke Schrijvers

In October 2020, Routledge published ‘Transforming Bodies and Religions: Powers and Agencies in Europe’, edited by Mariecke van den Berg, Jelle Wiering, Anne-Marie Korte and myself. The book is available as hardcover or ebook. This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on ‘transforming bodies’: bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or have resisted social…… Continue reading Transforming Bodies and Religions: Edited volume

Together with Daan Beekers (University of Edinburgh), I wrote an article about young adult’s sexual ethics in relation to religion. The article has now been published in Social Compass. How do Dutch religious young adults deal with questions of sexuality? How do their religious morals impact their sexual acts? What is the difference between Muslim and Christian young…… Continue reading New publication: ‘Religion, sexual ethics, and the politics of belonging’

The journal Religion and Gender (Brill publishers) recently published one of my articles with the title ‘Transition and Authority: Transgender Women and Religious Leadership in the Netherlands’. I based this on a close reading of two case studies of transgender women who experienced a loss of religious authority. The article is currently under embargo, but those…… Continue reading New publication! ‘Transition and Authority’